soundscan figures courtesy JRems at okayplayer.com. Article following from Billboard.com


TW Rank -- Artist -- Title -- TWSales -- %CHG -- LW Sales -- RTDSales
1 GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT 100,438 0 100,167 2,004,134
2 EMINEM ENCORE 84,470 -16 99,989 3,701,556
3 TWAIN*SHANIA GREATEST HITS 73,834 8 68,669 2,478,551
4 LEGEND*JOHN GET LIFTED 73,180 -2 74,831 265,637
5 LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ CRUNK JUICE 70,107 -13 80,394 1,568,201
6 CLARKSON*KELLY BREAKAWAY 60,307 -10 66,746 1,076,306
7 USHER CONFESSIONS 56,186 -17 67,402 8,102,182
8 JAY-Z/LINKIN PARK COLLISION COURSE 55,706 -18 67,896 1,333,447
9 LUDACRIS RED LIGHT DISTRICT 54,863 -26 74,450 1,050,390
10 VARIOUS NOW 17 53,318 -15 62,988 2,469,024
11 DESTINY'S CHILD DESTINY FULFILLED 53,172 -24 69,801 2,118,391
12 KEITH*TOBY VOL. 2-GREATEST HITS 52,190 13 46,096 2,015,183
13 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOM 48,557 -18 59,233 2,263,902
14 SNOOP DOGG R&G (RHYTHM) 43,504 -14 50,388 1,167,028
15 MARIO TURNING POINT 42,546 -13 49,102 580,248
16 STEFANI*GWEN LOVE.ANGEL.MUSIC.BABY 42,048 -21 52,915 1,103,625
17 CIARA GOODIES 41,851 -9 46,021 1,056,992
18 TUPAC LOYAL TO THE GAME 40,750 -26 55,306 761,979
19 NELLY SUIT 39,623 -9 43,407 2,533,133
21 GARDEN STATE SOUNDTRACK 36,457 -17 44,138 548,806
22 KILLERS HOT FUSS 35,993 -2 36,615 885,435

24 T.I. URBAN LEGEND 34,883 -8 38,036 580,896
25 CHARLES*RAY GENIUS LOVES COMPANY 34,544 -39 56,471 2,028,974
26 FANTASIA FREE YOURSELF 34,401 -14 39,814 760,099

28 MAROON 5 SONGS ABOUT JANE 33,347 -15 39,336 3,332,815
29 WILSON*GRETCHEN HERE FOR THE PARTY 33,061 -28 46,054 3,010,212
30 ASHANTI CONCRETE ROSE 31,042 -22 39,669 600,512
31 COACH CARTER SOUNDTRACK 28,919 999 128 29,047

42 LOHAN*LINDSAY SPEAK 20,618 -31 29,952 781,194
43 RAY SOUNDTRACK 20,393 -17 24,526 813,082
44 MODEST MOUSE GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE 20,389 -31 29,431 1,192,237

51 KEANE HOPES & FEARS 16,372 -3 16,921 420,307
52 CAM'RON PURPLE HAZE 16,117 -26 21,664 317,713

58 JOJO JOJO 14,987 -17 18,156 1,183,270
59 NAS STREET'S DISCIPLE 14,863 -25 19,839 499,224

67 KEYS*ALICIA DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS 13,453 -15 15,743 3,870,244

69 BREAKING BENJAMIN WE ARE NOT ALONE 13,246 -11 14,853 671,860

71 FRESH*MANNIE MIND OF MANNIE 13,214 -28 18,299 139,616
72 BLACK EYED PEAS ELEPHUNK 13,130 -17 15,873 2,410,741
73 TRICK DADDY THUG MATRIMONY 13,109 -14 15,252 549,407
74 QUEEN LATIFAH DANA OWENS ALBUM 13,054 0 13,030 448,195
75 JA RULE R.U.L.E 12,981 -28 18,060 538,355
76 HIP-HOP HITS VOL. 9 12,478 -10 13,836 104,298
77 NELLY SWEAT 12,452 -20 15,527 1,218,625
78 FRANZ FERDINAND FRANZ FERDINAND 12,439 -19 15,329 805,997

80 CHINGY POWERBALLIN' 12,160 -24 15,933 480,267

84 SIMPSON*ASHLEE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 11,786 -36 18,508 2,607,239

88 XZIBIT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION 11,154 -25 14,964 193,057

94 FABOLOUS REAL TALK 10,387 -11 11,666 430,963
95 STONE*JOSS MIND BODY & SOUL 10,144 -4 10,524 393,733
95 EVANESCENCE FALLEN 10,144 -15 11,883 6,086,484

99 EVANESCENCE ANYWHERE BUT HOME 9,957 -18 12,106 267,307

103 BEYONCE DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE 9,604 -17 11,532 3,926,450

108 YOUNG BUCK STRAIGHT OUTTA CASHVILLE 9,193 -15 10,879 933,858
109 STUDDARD*RUBEN I NEED AN ANGEL 9,108 -12 10,353 309,955

116 BANKS*LLOYD HUNGER FOR MORE 8,322 -8 9,062 1,373,001
117 HOOBASTANK THE REASON 8,292 -17 10,023 2,071,490
118 MCDONALD*MICHAEL MOTOWN TWO 8,263 -5 8,661 339,301

120 KRAVITZ*LENNY BAPTISM 8,206 -14 9,590 451,458
121 SCOTT*JILL BEAUTIFULLY HUMAN:WORDS V2 8,141 10 7,379 622,738

124 LIL' WAYNE CARTER 7,961 -20 9,891 717,480

126 WEST*KANYE COLLEGE DROP OUT 7,879 -26 10,701 2,476,980

131 SNOW PATROL FINAL STRAW 7,621 -11 8,566 293,971

134 HAMILTON*ANTHONY COMIN' FROM WHERE I'M FROM 7,441 -16 8,840 1,029,751

136 RICE*DAMIEN O 7,315 -14 8,473 385,116

143 LEVERT*GERALD DO I SPEAK FOR THE WORLD? 6,937 7 6,500 157,069

152 DIPLOMATS DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY II 6,689 -13 7,653 138,489
153 NIRVANA WITH THE LIGHTS OUT 6,581 -23 8,564 367,344

157 MOS DEF NEW DANGER 6,460 -30 9,174 346,126
158 LIL SCRAPPY/TRILLVILLE KING OF CRUNK & BME RECORDINGS 6,390 -4 6,661 632,328

161 BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY GREATEST HITS 6,172 -22 7,950 75,422

165 WILSON*BRIAN SMILE 5,884 -13 6,736 294,809

168 PEYROUX*MADELEINE CARELESS LOVE 5,787 14 5,097 103,269

172 GUERILLA BLACK GUERILLA CITY 5,529 -17 6,680 206,288

174 JAY-Z BLACK ALBUM 5,443 -32 8,000 2,951,661

177 JACKSON*MICHAEL NUMBER ONES 5,201 5 4,962 814,847

181 NAPOLEON DYNAMITE SOUNDTRACK 5,102 16 4,391 40,270

189 SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS 4,911 -7 5,263 164,581

191 GAME UNTOLD STORY 4,868 15 4,246 73,999

196 SMITH*ELLIOTT FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL 4,693 -12 5,309 163,435

200 ALLAN*GARY SEE IF I CARE 4,617 -13 5,322 713,520

TOTAL SALES 3,201,338 3,645,379 199,686,370



Green Day's 'Idiot' Hangs Onto No. 1


Green Day leads a slowly recovering Billboard 200 this week as "American Idiot" extends its return stay at No. 1 to a second consecutive and third overall week. With a .3% raise to 100,000 U.S. copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the Reprise set is one of only two top 10 albums that saw a sales gain, though the average decline for top titles was up from 30-50% to 5-25% this week.

The only other sales gainer in the upper echelon was Shania Twain's Mercury Nashville greatest hits compilation, which bolts 7-3 on an 8% increase to 74,000. In between the two is Eminem's "Encore" (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), which remains at No. 2 for a second week despite a 16% slide to 84,000 units.

A slight 2% fall to 73,000 copies is enough to secure John Legend's place at No. 4 for a second week with "Get Lifted" (Sony Urban Music/Columbia), while a 13% decrease to 70,000 sends Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz's "Crunk Juice" (TVT) down two positions to No. 5.

Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" (RCA) is bolstered 10-6 despite a 10% slump to 60,000 and Usher also gets a boost despite a 17% slope for "Confessions" (LaFace/Zomba), which gains 9-7 on 56,000 copies. "MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents Jay-Z and Linkin Park: Collision Course" (Machine Shop/Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) is steady at No. 8 for a second week with 56,000, off 18% from the previous week.

Ludacris' former No. 1, "Red Light District" (Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South), falls 5-9 on sales of 55,000, while the 17th installment of "NOW That's What I Call Music!" (Sony BMG/Universal/EMI/Zomba/Capitol) moves up one despite a 15% decline to 53,000 units to close out the top 10.

The soundtrack to the weekend's top-grossing movie is the Billboard 200's top debut this week, as Capitol's "Coach Carter" set enters at No. 31 with 29,000 copies. The set features Hot 100 favorites like Chingy, Twista, the Game, Ciara and Kanye West. Wind-Up's "Elektra: The Album," featuring Jet, Taking Back Sunday and Alter Bridge, bows at No. 62 on the strength of 14,000 units.

Also debuting are Donny Osmond's "What I Meant To Say" (Decca, No. 137), Madeleine Peyroux's "Careless Love" (Rounder, No. 168), the compilation "15 Duranguenses De Corazon" (Disa, No. 176), the "Napoleon Dynamite" soundtrack (Lakeshore, No. 181), the compilation "Parranda Tequilera 2005" (Univision Music Group, No. 184) and "Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics" (Buena Vista, No. 191).

With an 83% spike to 22,000, Celine Dion's "Miracle" (Epic) far surpasses the sales gain of any other act on The Billboard 200 and rebounds 90-36. A rerun of the Canadian songstress' appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" fueled the charge for the photo/lullaby collaboration with Anne Geddes, which originally bowed at No. 4 in October 2004.

Overall U.S. album sales were down 9.5% from the previous week at 9.6 million units and 8.6% lower than the same week last year. In the second full week of sales for 2005, year-to-date sales of 20.3 million units are down 20% from 2004

Today's charts are so depressing

DavidEye said:

Beyond depressing!

VinnyM27 said:

For many reasons - 100,000 copies in a week gets you a #1 album? I know this time of year is typically slow, but damn. People need to actually buy albums.

RipHer2Shreds said:

It would help if the labels released more good music.

/buys records but not the ones here

VoicesCarry said:

Agreed. Only so much can be blamed on file-sharing.

RipHer2Shreds said:

There is just nothing new out. I don't think any major release is going to come out until maybe March at this rate.

Man Lenny K's cd is GOLD I thought that was cutout bin material,although the gap ad's must've helped sell that crap.

VinnyM27 said:

That's what I was saying. This time of year is typically very slow, but this is even slow for this period.

4 LEGEND*JOHN GET LIFTED 73,180 -2 74,831 265,637

John Legend's album is still doing well. It is #1 on the R&B chart.

The last new album I bought was #16

#189's U.S. numbers are sad.

...and for #7, maybe if I stop referring to it by name it'll slowly go away.

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[Edited 1/20/05 16:23pm]

newpower99 said:

JANFAN4L said:

yeah ...1.5 mill in the UK , 160 thous in US

newpower99 said:

And they're American!

Also debuting are Donny Osmond's "What I Meant To Say"

meltwithu said:

At an impressive #137...but he's big in the UK (of course).

"Donny osmond, donny osmond. Donnie, Donnie, Donnie"

I had no idea yet another Tupac album was out (in top 20)? I honestly cannot keep up.....

thesexofit said:

Apparently produced by Eminem...and how did that happen!

Well that means I won't be buying it.

Jesus how much did Tupac write?

I ain't got any of his stuff since his death. Except "changes", which is still a nice song.

"till the end of time" (despite the corniness) was nice too.....

Glad to see three brilliant albums made it...

Keane
Damian Rice
Snow Patrol

If anyone hasn't tried it, get Damian Rice....It is THE best album of the last 10 years. Sheer songwriting at its best.

thesexofit said:[quote]

"Donny osmond, donny osmond. Donnie, Donnie, Donnie"



he's a little old for that rebel without a clue look

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meltwithu said:

it is an 80's "soldier of love" pic.....he was a rebel in that song though, which was kinda odd.